TV series

Noli Me Tangere

1993 · 1 season

A solemn, talk-heavy literary costume drama that unfolds patiently, asking you to sit with injustice and heartbreak rather than spectacle.

Overview: Eddie Romero's miniseries adaptation of the novel from Filipino writer and activist Jose Rizal, published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines in 1887. Noli Me Tángere (Latin for "Touch Me Not") explores perceived inequities in law and practice in terms of the treatment by the ruling government and the Spanish Catholic friars of the resident peoples in the late nineteenth century.
How it feels: Earnest, dark, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Class, power, corruption, faith
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
power
corruption
faith
justice
Places: small town
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild